Understanding Pragmatics by Senft Gunter

Author:Senft, Gunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134645756
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Park’s example (8) provides a neutral, trivial token with which one can start a conversation. Park points out that such a ‘“weather chat” is a real ice-breaker’:

(8)

Tar-i ch’am pal-chiyo?

‘The moon is very bright, isn’t it?’

Park’s examples (9) and (10) illustrate ‘typical closing expressions’ which use ‘other oriented tokens (e.g. mentioning time) or self-oriented ones (e.g. another appointment ...)’:

An indirect speech act like the one illustrated in example (11) can also signal a speaker’s intention to end the conversation:

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